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Easy Bread Dough

Easy Bread Recipe

This easy bread dough recipe is so versatile that you will be reaching for it all year long! This is the Clean Eating version too!

Course Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword clean eating recipes, easy bread reicpe, healthy bread recipe, homemade bread, kid friendly recipes
Prep Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 55 minutes
Servings 24 rolls
Calories 58 kcal

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup warm water
  • 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast one packet
  • 2 teaspoons honey
  • 3/4 cup warm milk I used grass fed cow milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter softened
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 1/2 cups White Whole Wheat flour plus more for rolling
  • 1 egg beaten and or melted butter, for brushing

Instructions

  1. Add the Warm water, yeast and honey to the bowl of a stand mixer. Let it sit until it starts to bubble and the yeast is dissolved - about 5 minutes.
  2. Add the milk, egg, butter, salt and white whole wheat flour. Use the dough hook and mix on low until it turns into a ball. You will need to scrape down the sides of the bowl several times. It will look like a ball of dough when it's ready. It takes about 5 minutes.
  3. Once well blended, put it on a flat surface that has been dusted with flour.
  4. Knead the dough for a few minutes and roll into a ball. Place it back into the greased bowl of your stand mixer and cover with a dishtowel or plastic wrap. place in fridge for 30 minutes.

  5. Place the dough back on a flat surface and roll out into a rectangle that is 1/4th inch thick. If you wanted to make more of a buttery crescent, you would add butter at this point. To do this, brush melted butter on dough and move on to the next step. If using this as a bread dough, there is no need to add the butter at this point.

  6. Fold the top of the dough half way down the rectangle. Then fold the bottom of the dough up half way, so you end up with a rectangle that is 3 layers thick. Cover with a dishtowel or plastic wrap and place back in the fridge for 10 minutes. Repeat this step 3 times, so it is in the fridge for a total of 30 minutes.